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aérer
aérer
French
Verb
aérer
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written aérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written aèrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
Conjugation of aérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | aérer | avoir aéré | |||||
| gerund | en aérant | en ayant aéré | |||||
| present participle | aérant /a.e.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | aéré /a.e.ʁe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | aère /a.ɛʁ/ |
aères /a.ɛʁ/ |
aère /a.ɛʁ/ |
aérons /a.e.ʁɔ̃/ |
aérez /a.e.ʁe/ |
aèrent /a.ɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | aérais /a.e.ʁɛ/ |
aérais /a.e.ʁɛ/ |
aérait /a.e.ʁɛ/ |
aérions /a.e.ʁjɔ̃/ |
aériez /a.e.ʁje/ |
aéraient /a.e.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | aérai /a.e.ʁe/ |
aéras /a.e.ʁa/ |
aéra /a.e.ʁa/ |
aérâmes /a.e.ʁam/ |
aérâtes /a.e.ʁat/ |
aérèrent /a.e.ʁɛʁ/ |
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| future | aèrerai or aérerai /a.ɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
aèreras or aéreras /a.ɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
aèrera or aérera /a.ɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
aèrerons or aérerons /a.ɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
aèrerez or aérerez /a.ɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
aèreront or aéreront /a.ɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | aèrerais or aérerais /a.ɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
aèrerais or aérerais /a.ɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
aèrerait or aérerait /a.ɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
aèrerions or aérerions /a.ɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
aèreriez or aéreriez /a.ɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ |
aèreraient or aéreraient /a.ɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | aère /a.ɛʁ/ |
aères /a.ɛʁ/ |
aère /a.ɛʁ/ |
aérions /a.e.ʁjɔ̃/ |
aériez /a.e.ʁje/ |
aèrent /a.ɛʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
aérasse /a.e.ʁas/ |
aérasses /a.e.ʁas/ |
aérât /a.e.ʁa/ |
aérassions /a.e.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
aérassiez /a.e.ʁa.sje/ |
aérassent /a.e.ʁas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | aère /a.ɛʁ/ |
— | aérons /a.e.ʁɔ̃/ |
aérez /a.e.ʁe/ |
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